HHS has updated its breach tool again. Here are the new additions, starting with the ones we already knew about: Fayetteville VAMC UMASS Amherst Various Health Plans, AL, SynerMed / Inland Valleys IPA (note: 3,164 were affected) Lincoln County Health and Human Services/Lincoln Community Health Center (note: 959 were affected) Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Palm…
Category: Health Data
Indiana FSSA notifying 187,533 clients of potential information breach
From their press release today: The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) is in the process of notifying some FSSA clients that some of their personal information may have been accidently disclosed to other clients. The accidental disclosures may have occurred when RCR Technology Corporation (RCR), a contractor for FSSA, made a computer programming…
NE: PHI on 2,125 patients was on chip that fell out of a thumb drive on a lanyard
From the Lincoln Journal Star: They emptied vacuum cleaner bags. Scoured the office. Nothing. Somehow, somewhere, sometime in May, a computer chip containing medical records for more than 2,000 of a Lincoln doctor’s patients went missing — likely having slipped from the thumb drive Dr. James Fosnaugh wore on a lanyard around his neck. Fosnaugh’s office,…
Medical records breach at Tampa General, USF exposes woman's secret
Letitia Stein reports: Jennifer Jones didn’t want her entire family to know about the baby girl she delivered five years ago at Tampa General Hospital and placed for adoption. But a relative whose job as a nurse gave her access to the hospital’s medical records went snooping and found out anyway. The breach came to…
Before-and-after pictures uploaded to web site leads to lawsuit by plastic surgery patient
I’ve occasionally posted stories involving complaints against plastic surgeons who used patients’ before and after photos, allegedly without their consent (cf here, here, here, and here). Now there’s a similar lawsuit in New York, where Catherine Manzione has sued Dr. Grigoriy Mashkevich. TechDirt has the story and complaint.
Ca: Breach of privacy at St. Joseph's Hospital
David Willberg reports: An employee at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Estevan has been fired following a privacy breach at the hospital. A regular audit of the pharmaceutical information program determined that the employee improperly accessed the records of seven individuals. The information program is a record of prescription medications that have been filled at community…